Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trent Reznor

People want to listen to a lot of music and do whatever they want with it. They don't want DRM, they don't want subscriptions. They don't want a player that only can do this but can't do that and you only have one copy. They don't want that. You know? I don't want that.

Trent Reznor

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.

Trent Reznor

The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.

Trent Reznor

I think the thing I've always tried to do is - and I didn't plan it, it just started to come out that way - is try to make challenging music that flirts with accessibility.

Tunde Adebimpe

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Tunde Adebimpe

Playing shows is really fun. And writing music is really fun. But going on tour for a year is one of the more soul-crushing experiences you can have as a creative person.

Tyler Hilton

I have come to terms with the fact that it's called pop music - that's what I play, and that is what I write. I think it is a pretty broad category.

Tyler Hilton

Whether or not I would be able to be an actor without the music I'm not sure, but I feel pretty lucky to do it.

Big Sean

People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.'

Carrie Brownstein

With music, I get to a much darker place. Where I'm able to go with 'Portlandia' has a wider range, but also a brighter range.

Vanessa Brown

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

Ansel Elgort

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

David Gilmour

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

B. B. King

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Vonda Shepard

I have played lots of clubs since I was 14, but I always did my own music.

Vonda Shepard

I can't really stop doing the music because it really feeds me.

Wolfman Jack

I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.

Rhythm is part of our lives, and with music and rhythm, we can communicate together.

Joe Jonas

Reuniting with my brothers musically has been really incredible.

Benji Madden

Right now, I'm really into '80s music like Cyndi Lauper and Tiffany.

Rick Allen

People want to be entertained again. Our music is like 'Star Wars' for the ears. The production, the music -- it's all about entertainment.

Terry Teachout

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Tori Kelly

One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh but also soulful and real. I want people to feel like they know me once they listen to my songs.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

Khloe Kardashian

The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.

Judith Hill

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

Jimmy Cliff

Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

John Hughes

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

Lydia Lunch

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.